Beneath the portal

7

I got distracted and wrote about 3000 words for a chapter so hopefully it won't bother you guys how extra long this one is compared to my other chapters which are 1500~ words each :3

This is one my favourite chapters I wrote in my opinion

Germany logged onto the laptop and handed the laptop back to Taipei, who thanked him.

'Germany?' Taipei got his attention, who stopped helping Hualien with his drawing after hacking into the laptop, turning to Taipei's direction. He nodded as response.

'I feel off...' Taipei said, leaning against the sofa weakly. Germany immediately dropped the charcoal pencil on the ground and moved closer to the city, putting his hand against her forehead.

'You're burning up..' West mentioned, 'How do you feel, specifically?'

'I feel distant but in a way that makes me sick, I feel like I'm missing something.' West was about to check her heart rate when suddenly Taipei turning the other way and started throwing up, struggling to take breaths between.

'TAIPEI! Hualien call the emergency number!' West noticed Taipei getting even weaker by the second, eventually Taipei stopped throwing up but seemed to pass out. West catched her lifeless body before she fell off the sofa. He lied Taipei against the sofa, making sure she wasn't on her back.

[Time skip to 2 hours later]

Germany took off his coat. He talked with Thailand and Singapore, the other doctors before passing them a clipboard and leaving the room. Sitting in front of HongKong, who was the only one allowed to visit since most cities are placed in a different section of medical care.

'So what's the cause?'

'It's honestly simple. When a country goes missing too long and too distant from their capital, the Capital suffers consequences from it and gets ill.'

'Oh dear, will she get better?'

'Only if Taiwan returns, or else it will only get worse.'

Poland took his second glass of beer, while Czechia was on his third.

'Listen, I can try to help but like  I'm not sure what I can do...' Czechia said, taking another sip of his beer.
'Taiwan was the first person to know about this, she must know a way to stop this.' Poland added,
'We need to be under disguise though, if they find out it was us who found Taiwan, they would go after us too. We must also ask Germany to track her down which he might already be doing.' Czechia warned, taking out his wallet to pay.
'Anyway, you grabbing another beer or should I pay already?'

'I'm not in the mood for any more alcohol, especially on an empty stomach.' Poland refused the offer, Czechia quickly paid before the two called a taxi back home.

'So that's basically my plan, what do you think Ukraine? I'll have to be under disguise though so they won't go after me, especially since I'm a dark magic user.' East explained to Ukraine.

'That's a pretty good plan, we just need to ask West to track Taiwan and we can start going.' Ukraine agreed.
'She can't be that far from us.'

East's phone started vibrating and dropped from the table nearby on the floor, continuing to vibrate with the most annoying ringtone known to kind. Having an annoying ringtone was the only way to make East answer calls otherwise she would just vibe to the ringtone instead of answering.

'Hold on a Minute.' East went to grab her phone to answer, turns out it was her twin (West).

E: Hallo?
W: Hey East, how's your work going?
E: It's good, you need anything or why you calling?
W: Ah! I just wanted to talk to you, can I come over?
E: Let me ask Ukraine real quick